...every study of the gods, of everyone's gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent.

We invent what we love and what we fear.

I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.

What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.

A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Keep passing the open windows.